I like playing with audio. Changing, warping and morphing sounds, effects and voices can be pretty cool and can be a lot of fun, if you have the right app to push the activity. This is one of the reasons why applications like AV Voice Changer Software Diamond is pretty cool. It’s a cool audio app for Windows, and its really a lot of fun.

AV Voice Changer Software Diamond is an app that does voice changing and voice manipulation. You can make your voice sound more feminine, more masculine, more childish, younger or older, or even make yourself sound like a famous celebrity. AV Voice Changer Software Diamond is an all-in-one program for as voice-over and voice dubbing in audio or video clips, narrations, or presentations. You can change, mix or remove a voice in a song, in E-greeting cards, voice mails, or from any other file with audio in it, or that can use audio. You can imitate the voice of any person or even create non-human sounds.

The app is pretty amazing. It will let you control timbre and pitch levels, as well as adjust other important qualities of the human voice, such as threshold, base pitch, format, etc. With ready-to-use nick-voices, you can mix and match effects and make yourself sound crazy. Its advanced, specialized, voice morphing settings help you produce the most natural sounding output. The app has a huge library of vivid sound and background effects for creating unique audio results.

Use a microphone to record a voice chat conversation, internet radio, or any sound you can hear. Capture online audio streams from various applications. Reduce, add echo or apply robotic effects, in real-time, to make your output voice sound completely different, instantly, even while chatting. Includes a vocal comparator.

AV Voice Changer Software Diamond is a pretty cool application. You can use it to change your voice or any audio file on your PC with added effects and filters. If you have an app like Skype or other VoIP client, you can use it to disguise your voice and prank your friends, or just to add a bit of fun and spice to your calls. With its 50 specialized nick-voices, you can combine them and a number of other settings to produce some unique, never heard before effects that will have you laughing for hours on end

Apps like this can be a lot of fun, but unless you’re a professional voice actor or someone doing some level of professional or semi-professional audio or video production, the novelty may wear off quickly.

Chat with your friends with this group-based audio chat software for Windows.

VoIP is a huge deal. Making calls to friends and loved ones across the internet is easier than ever to do today. This is one reason why I like apps like RaidCall, It’s an audio chat client for Windows.

RaidCall is free and light weight. Setting it up is very easy. With it, you won’t have to rent or set up local chat servers. Its low CPU usage and minimum memory footprint also allow for smooth, uninterrupted communication between you and your call recipients.

RaidCall supports Group Communications, too. You can have up to 10,000 users at a time in a single RaidCall group and has a flexible group management system. The client supports Hi-Fi quality voice chat from anywhere in the world; and has additional features like a voice recorder, polling, announcements, and an activity log.

RaidCall also supports instant messaging. Aside from passing text messages back and forth, the app also handles file transferring and screenshot sharing, and chat records. It also supports personalized themes and emoticons.

RaidCall is a decent VoIP client, but is seriously lacking in video calling support. With apps like Skype and FaceTime readily available (depending on platform) that support both audio as well as video chat, for many, RaidCall may be a non-starter in the consumer market.

For SOHO, it may be a decent choice, as video chat may not be a huge need here. However, the lack of video chat support in a client like this is a huge hole. Even though it’s free, there are other aps out there that are likely a better choice.

This is more about demonstrating a clever technology than providing a genuinely useful service. With that in mind, it’s certainly fun to play about with.

Skype Voice Changer is based on the numerous applications that are available to artificially alter voices. Some of us have tried out such tools before, while many of us have encountered them in the form of special effects or, most memorably and horrifically, in a certain teenage girl’s song about her favorite day of the week that caused a storm on YouTube.

What’s different about this software is that it works in real time. Rather than take an entire recording and work its magic, it aims to alter your voice so quickly that you can hold a conversation with your chat partner hearing your distorted voice without any obvious delays.

The control set-up is simple but effective. You start by choosing from a range of pre-set filters and effects, then make the call on Skype. While talking, you can tweak features such as pitch and echo, with the changes taking immediate effect without you needing to restart the software or the call.

Frankly there will be few reasons why you’d want to use this regularly unless you are really into crank calls. That said, it’s certainly worth a look if you have an elderly relative who often wonders at “the things they can do with computers nowadays.”

My oldest son is 6, and he’s turning into quite the gamer. Without being able to read well at all, he was able to complete Pokemon Silver on his Nintendo DSiXL, much to the surprise of me and most of the Geek Squad at the local Best Buy. We don’t have a an X-Box360 or PS3 in the house yet, as most of the games that you’d want those consoles for aren’t age appropriate for my boys. They also don’t have a gaming class PC available to them…yet. However, for those that do, you really want to check out Xfire. It’s a must have gaming utility for Windows

Xfire is the kind of gaming utility that you were wondering would make its way on to the internet a decade or so ago, it’s that cool. With it, you find the games you play. It then tracks how long you play them; and allows you and your friends to find each other so that you can play together.

Once you finally hook up, you can use Xfire to coordinate strategy, strikes and game play. You can chat with other Xfire users, as well as your friends on AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger without exiting the game. If you have a hoard to command or are trying to coordinate a multiplayer strike against the enemy, you can bring your friends into a group chat. Best of all, you’re not confined to texting or IM. If the situation requires you to keep your hands on the controls, you can bring everyone into a voice chat and bark orders without a hit to performance or ping.